Beautiful Spring Day

[puppetmaker]

Makes me want to take a long walk in a local national park or something. Or do more yard work if I can get the sheers sharpened today.

We have a busy weekend planned with trips to the Cirque on Saturday to see Ova and then to visit my Mother-in-Law on Sunday for Mother’s day.

I find I have more energy today then I have had in a while. Maybe it’s the illusion of spring but it is nice to have it back for a while.

Today is a bunch of small things I need to do before I can get back to the big things

I can’t believe that anyone is saying that reading Miranda Rights to a suspect who is an American Citizen is wrong. He is an American Citizen and thus has the rights of such. I don’t care what his beliefs are or his lack of, but we have to do it the right way or we are no better than the Taliban. We pride ourselves on our legal systems. Let’s not turn it into any more of two-tiered system than it already is.

I know a lot of people in Nashville. I ask that you think good thoughts as they dig out or bail out from the river water. I know one person who has lost his entire business because of the flood waters. He has flood insurance so he will be OK once the assessment has been done. He and his wife are so glad that they paid that extra money over the years now.

And continued good thoughts and wishes for all those on the Gulf Coast who are watching their summer business dissolve into nothing because of what may happen. It is going to take them a long time to recover from this.

Arizona is finding out that their new law is causing their convention business to run to other venues. There are rumblings that the all-star game is going to be under attended by ball-players because of the law. It was a stupid law that seems to have been created so it can go to the Supreme Court to get shot down as unconstitutional.

I promise more creative thoughts down the road. Right now I am kind of sorting out a lot of stuff in my brain.

I am grateful for my legal rights.

Comments

[readinggeek451]

Now I'm kind of regretting my next-month trip to the Grand Canyon. It won't stop me going (already paid for non-refundable tickets), but it might stop me from buying anything while I'm there. Both my hotel and the tour company I'm using are in Las Vegas, so the only money I'd spend in Arizona would be on souvenirs and a late-afternoon snack. Maybe I should pack food for the day.

[wonderbink.livejournal.com]

Furthermore, by treating this terrorist suspect in a humane manner, we've probably gotten more useful intelligence out of him than years of Guantanamo torture managed to uncover.

It's also interesting that there's been so much hoo-ha about the suspect being a Muslim while the fact that the guy who noticed and reported the car bomb in the first place was ALSO a Muslim (http://thinkprogress.org/2010/05/05/senagalese-muslim-vendor/) is barely mentioned.